Ricky Steamboat

While retired, Steamboat made appearances for TNA Wrestling, Ring of Honor and the independents before returning to WWE in 2005 as a road agent.

He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009 and returned to the ring for the first time in 15 years to have a match alongside Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka against Chris Jericho at WrestleMania XXV.

Fit Finlay

Finlay got his start in Ireland and wrestled in Japan before making the move to WCW.

While with the wrestling giant, he would capture only this title.

After the company was shut down in 2001, WWE hired him as a trainer.

He returned to the ring in 2006, where he won the United States Championship once.

In 2010, he went back to training wrestlers and working as a producer before he was released in 2011 after major backlash from him booking The Miz to interrupt the national anthem during a house show with US troops in attendance.

Statistics and Final Thoughts

The Television Championship was a much sought after belt in the NWA and WCW.

It has been held by some of the all-time greats and has produced many great matches in its history.

It was used as a stepping stone at times to bigger and better things while other times it would prove to be a wrestlers only success.

Towards the end of its existence, the title’s importance dwindled.

It went from a title that many wanted to a title that nobody wanted. When Scott Hall literally threw it in the trash, I knew that was it for the belt.

I was hoping that with the company’s “reboot” that the belt would see resurgence but it was just scrapped.

While TNA Wrestling has their own TV Championship, its status as a mid-card title is as low as WCW’s was before it was thrown in the garbage.

The Television Championship was typically defended every week on television in matches with a 10-minute time limit. As time went by, it became every other week, then just on pay-per-view before it stopped appearing all together.

Now the WCW World Television Championship is gone and forgotten.

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There are only three titles left in the series, but I’m not sure which one I’m going to do next.